User IDs and Passwords within Platform Server Transfers

TIBCO MFT Command Center requires a user ID and password to log onto the system. TIBCO MFT Platform Server authentication requires that the TIBCO MFT Platform Server initiator and responder systems have a user ID and password to perform a transfer. Therefore, three user IDs and passwords are required to perform a transfer.

TIBCO MFT Command Center and TIBCO MFT Platform Server both have facilities to automatically generate and send the user ID and password to the remote systems. The following table describes the user IDs and passwords and explains how they can be defined.

Authentication Description
TIBCO MFT Command Center Login This user ID and password is input by the user when logging onto TIBCO MFT Command Center using a web browser.

The command line configuration program encrypts and adds the user ID and password in the global.xml file.

TIBCO MFT Platform Server Initiator
This information can come from one of three places in the order as described in TIBCO MFT Command Center User ID and Password Rules:
  • From the Platform transfer definition.
  • From a server credential definition.
  • From the Server Credentials section in a server definition. This is the default values used for any request to this server.

If the information is not defined on one of the above ways, the request terminates with an error.

The best way to define the TIBCO MFT Platform Server initiator user ID and password is by defining a server credential for the user and server combination.

TIBCO MFT Platform Server Responder
When the TIBCO MFT Platform Server initiator receives a request from TIBCO MFT Command Center, it then communicates with the TIBCO MFT Platform Server responder to start the file transfer request. The responder user ID and password can come from the following places in the order as described in TIBCO MFT Command Center User ID and Password Rules:
  • From the Platform transfer definition.
  • From a user profile defined to the TIBCO MFT Platform Server initiator. When the transfer is initiated on the Platform Server, the Platform Server scans its user profile definitions for a match on the initiating user ID and the target node. If a match is found, the responder user ID and password defined by the user profile is used for the file transfer.
  • TIBCO MFT Platform Server sends a trusted user to the remote TIBCO MFT Platform Server. It is up to the remote system whether the trusted user request is accepted. TIBCO MFT Platform Server for Windows does not support trusted users, and the other platforms must be configured to accept trusted users.